Wednesday, March 19, 2014

“The Crimea referendum was the first legal way to find out what the
people wanted to do. The turnout was remarkable, and they voted
overwhelmingly to rejoin Russia, to become part of Russia once again.
The interesting thing here is it was not just the Russians that voted to
join Russia but the Ukrainians in Crimea, which makes a sizable part of
the population voted to join Russia. . . Ukraine is composed of sort of
a no man’s land in the West and then Russian territories in the East. .
. .

If that trend holds, you are basically left with
this insolvent nugget of nothingness, and it will be up to the
international community to decide what to do with these people. They
are right now marching around Kiev with baseball bats and going into
government offices and beating up members of local government and
installing their own members. They are basically running amok. They
don’t even have the support of the Ukrainian military at this point.
So, it will be a mop-up operation against these neo-fascists that are
running amok.”

Orlov goes on to say, “In Washington, in the
Obama Administration and in the Kerry State Department, we have
absolutely breathtaking levels of incompetence. These people really
don’t know what they’re doing and are dangerous at any speed; and
everywhere else, we have this follow the incompetent leader thing taking
place, and it’s really, really frightening because the incompetents are
leading the world to a really dangerous place.”

Retired Lt. Gen. Thomas McInerney — the recipient of the Distinguished Flying Cross, Bronze Star, Air Medal with 17 oak-leaf clusters, Distinguished Service Medal and other honors — is suggesting searchers looking for the missing Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 take a look at possible landing spots in Taliban-controlled Pakistan.

In an interview with Sean Hannity of Fox News, McInerney, now a contributor to the network, said his recommendation was based on information from sources he was unwilling to disclose on television as well as the analysis of an intelligence service called LIGNET.

McInerney said the free world needs to be worried until the location of the jet, which disappeared March 8 on a flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing, is determined.

“My concern is if this airplane could be used as a bearer of a weapon of mass destruction or even conventional munitions that could attack a carrier, Israel, our allies,” he said. “We have to be very alert until we know exactly where this airplane is.”

Investigators believe the airplane changed course shortly after takeoff and headed West for as long as seven hours. They are looking into the politics of the pilot, who had a Boeing 777 simulator set up in his own home from which data recently had been deleted.

I want y'all to picture something. Suppose the #2 elected
official in Russia made a trip to Toronto and Mexico City. Suppose
further he said in public speeches, "I understand how worried y'all
are that the United States might invade y'all again, as it did in the
past, so I am here to assure you that Russia is on your side." I'm
betting y'all would be pretty ticked off and consider that
high-handed meddling.

So yesterday
the US Vice President Joe I-Had-A-Hair-Transplant Biden went to
Poland, Lithuania, and Estonia and said all this, but aimed at Russia.
Look at it from both directions: if you were the Russians, how
would you take that? If you were the Poles, Lithuanians, &
Estonians, how much would you trust it? And if it would be
high-handed meddling if the Russians did it, why is it not high-handed
meddling when formerly bald Joe Biden does it?

An alleged member of the Mexican Knights Templar cartel,
34-year-old Manuel Plancarte Gaspar, was arrested by police in the state
of Michoacán--suspected of killing young children by removing their
internal organs. Michoacán state Public Safety Secretary Carlos
Castellanos accused the alleged gang member of involvement in the
cartel's organ harvesting ring, which reportedly targeted children,
according to a report in the New York Daily News.

According to the Daily Mail,
Gaspar was apprehended last week in a stolen car where large amounts of
cash and crystal meth were found. He is the nephew of a notorious
Knights Templar leader named Enrique Plancarte Solis.

Subsequent to the arrest, Carlos Castellanos tweeted a series of alarming messages according to the Daily News.
One of them said that Gaspar "belongs to a criminal group and is being
investigated for the death of children, who drew their organs for sale,"
as reported in the paper.

“In the practical application of policies, our western
partners – the United States first and foremost – prefer to be
guided not by international law, but by the right of strength.
They believe in their exceptionalism, that they are allowed to
decide on the fate of the world, that they are always
right,” Putin charged.

This disregard to rule of law was evident in Yugoslavia in 1999,
when NATO bombed the country without a UN Security Council
mandate, the Russian president said. There was Afghanistan, Iraq
and the perversion of the UNSC resolution on Libya, when instead
of imposing a no-fly zone NATO bombed the country into
submission.

There were also orchestrated “colored revolutions” in Europe and
the Arab World, which cynically used the feelings of people tired
with corruption and poverty. The latest Ukrainian events are just
the latest of such actions, and Russia’s willingness to seek
dialogue and compromise was stonewalled again, Putin said.

All is reportedly calm in Simferopol today after two Ukrainians were killed near the military base there on Tuesday. However, all is decidedly not calm elsewhere in Crimea. The headquarters of the Ukrainian navy were overrun on Wednesday
by Russian troops and pro-Russian volunteers. No shots were fired, but
the latest confrontation between pro-western Ukrainian soldiers and
Russian troops is escalating tensions and setting the world on edge:

Self-defence members were patrolling an area of the Crimean city of
Simferopol on Tuesday, after a shooting which killed one and injured two
members of the local self-defence unit, according to the Crimean news
agency Criminform referring to a source in the Crimean Interior
Ministry.

According to the source, the self-defence forces
arrived to Kubanskaya street in the city to check a report claiming that
a group of armed people had been detected in a partially-inhabited
building. While the self-defence unit was conducting operations to check
the information, fire was opened, killing one and injuring two members
the team.

Simferopol.Snipers in provocative action at 18.03.2014.Non-identified snipers had killed two and injured two people at Kubanskaya st., Simferopol, Crimea.Equal victims are belongs to Crimean self-defence forces and Ukrainean army.

The CEO of a gun parts store in California on Monday accused the ATF
of trying to obtain the names of nearly 5,000 of his customers by
striking a secret deal with him.

Agents with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives
“basically said, ‘Listen, we know you’re a legitimate business. We know
you’re doing everything fine. Hand over the list of names, hand over
this particular product that we have now deemed to be a firearm and
everything’s going to be fine. Nobody will know about it. It will be
swept under the rug,’” Ares Armor owner Dimitrios Karras said.

A federal judge in Los Angeles blasted ATF for sting
operations that he said unfairly enlist people in a "made-up crime" by
offering them a huge payday for robbing a non-existent drug stash house.

Tactical Machining has a determination from the ATF stating that our 80%
receivers are not firearms. Make sure the manufacturer of your 80%
lower has a determination from the ATF or you could end up in the same
boat.

Tactical Machining
has been in the 80% receiver business since 2008, and have AR-10, AR-15,
and 10/22 receivers as well as a 1911 frame on the market. From what
I’ve heard of the company they have a good reputation for quality, and
the denizens of various forums seem to think they are the are some of
the good guys in the business.

The owners of Backstreets Pub and Deli in Clemson, SC, is free to
hold any opinion they desire about gun owners in general, and concealed
carry permit holders in specific. They should probably keep in mind,
however, that gun owners are a large percentage of the population and
tend to support one another.

The coming spike in health insurance costs contradicts statements
made by embattled Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius
who said, "The increases are far less significant than what they were prior to the Affordable Care Act."

One senior insurance executive told The Hill
that his company is planning to triple its premiums for its Obamacare
customers, stating, "I think everybody knows that the way the exchange
has rolled out ... is going to lead to higher costs." The official
added, "We're exasperated. All of these major delays on very significant
portions of the law are going to change what it's going to cost."

In response to a question from the Third Circuit Court of Appeals, The Delaware Supreme Court has ruled in Doe v. Wilmington Housing Authority
that Section 20 of the Delaware Constitution, passed in 1987, is more
extensive than 3rd Circuit precedent recognizes for the 2nd Amendment,
which does not extend outside the home. Delaware’s Section 20 explicitly
recognizes a right to carry outside the home for self-defense.

At issue is Wilmington Housing Authority’s revised regulations on
guns, which prohibits carrying firearms in common areas. The Delaware
Supreme Court argues they violate Section 20 of the Delaware
Constitution. The Court uses intermediate scrutiny here, but they do a
much more honest analysis at that level than most courts, which have
really just instituted rational basis review under the guise of
intermediate scrutiny. Here’s the Court:

The image above is a Bible verse from Galatians 2:20 that a cadetat the U.S. Air Force Academy (USAFA) in Colorado Springs, Colorado, wrote on the whiteboard outside his bedroom door.

29 cadets and four faculty and staff members found the verse so offensive that they complained to Mikey Weinstein, president of the Military Religious Freedom Foundation.

He's running neck and neck with Dee$ as the most repulsive POS around.

Weinstein fumed to FoxNews’ Todd Starnes:
“Had it been in his room — not a problem. It’s not about the belief.
It’s about the time, the place and the manner. It clearly elevated one
religious faith over all others at an already virulently
hyper-fundamentalist Christian institution. It massively poured
fundamentalist Christian gasoline on an already raging out-of-control
conflagration of fundamentalist Christian tyranny, exceptionalism and
supremacy at [the academy].”
He's running neck and neck with Dee$ as the most repulsive POS around.

I like to torture myself in the morning by listening to the
windbags on National Proletarian Radio, the Voice of Dull
International Socialism and Self-Important Do-Gooding. This morning
they interviewed the somewhat less than sparkling US Senator from
Illinois, Dick Durbin, to solicit his Deep Thoughts about in Ukraine,
where he has just paid a meddling visit. This is similar to my
visiting your house, complaining about the food and the furniture
arrangement and telling you your neighbor called your wife "ugly,"
but let that go.

What caught my ear was this billion bucks the
US is going to give/loan to Ukraine, part of which they will spend on
military. Of course, there's no way a Ukrainian army could stand up
to the entire Russian army, so that's all a colossal waste of money
and of possibly of lives.

Then it hit me: it would be cheaper
to buy every man in the country a rifle and a pistol, and a pistol
for every woman, and teach 'em all how to make IEDs. Come to think of
it, we could do the same in the US. Nobody in his right mind --
other than the present US government -- would take on a fight like
that against a whole nation. And it would be far cheaper than a
professional military. In the US, say half the 300 million folks are
men, 2/3 old enough to handle a rifle. Buy 'em all a rifle with 1,000
rounds for $200 & teach 'em how to use it. That's an army of 100
million men for only $20 billion, and you don't have to pay 'em a
cent of retirement. Militia makes sense, professional army doesn't.

But what do I know? I'm no mor'n a natural born fool from Tennessee
where we don't get to print our own money and know better than to
meddle in other people's business for they might shoot you. We're
nice, but we ain't that nice.

Remembrance

Winners: Navy Cross Nguyen Van Kiet & MOH Thomas R. Norris This week’s Medal of Honor hero is one of a handful of Navy SEALs awarded the MOH in the Vietnam War. Norris snuck behind enemy lines with a South Vietnamese Navy petty officer rescued two downed pilots in 1972–when most of our resources had been pulled from the country. Interesting to note that later year, Norris was himself rescued by another SEAL Michael E. Thornton.More @ Medal of Honor Roll Call

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Core Creek Militia

==============================My sixth great grandfather, his wife, and five of his six children were killed in battle with the Tuscarora Indians at Core Creek, NC.

The Seven Blackbirds

==============================My third great grandfather was an Ensign in the Revolutionary War, and saved his unit's flag after being wounded at the Battle of Brandywine. He was also at Kingston (Kinston), Wilmington, Charleston, Two Sisters and Augusta. He was at the defeat at Brier Creek and also Bee Creek.

Requiem Aeternam -
Eternal Rest Grant unto Them
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My second great grandfather was killed in action on May 3, 1863 at the Battle of Chancellorsville.
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My great grandfather and great uncle knew all the men in the "Civil War Requiem" video as they were part of the 53rd NC which was the sole unit defending Fort Mahone. (Fort Mahone was named "Fort Damnation" by the Yankees) *Handpicked men of the 53rd (My great grandfather was one of these) made the final, night assault at Petersburg in an attempt to break Grant's line. This was against Fort Stedman which was a few miles to the slight northeast. They initially succeeded, but reinforcements drove them back. This video is made from photographs which were taken the day after the 53rd evacuated the lines the night before to begin the retreat to Appomattox. I have many more pictures taken by the same photographer, one of these shows a 14 year old boy and the other is the famous picture of the blond, handsome soldier with his musket.
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*General Gordon promised the men a gold medal and 30 days leave if they accomplished their task and many years after the War my great grandfather wrote General Gordon, who was then governor of Georgia about this incident. They exchanged several letters which I have framed. See first link below.
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*The Attack On Fort Stedman
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"His Colored Friends"
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Lee's Surrender
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My Black NC Kinfolks
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Punished For Being Caught!

Great Grandfather Koonce

He was a drummer boy in the WBTS, survived the War only to die a few years later. He was caught in an ice storm on his way home, but instead of seeking shelter, continued on his horse until the end. His clothes had to be cut off and he died a few days later.

Thank you

I would just like you to know how so very glad I am that I found your blog. I have learned more history from you and the many links that you post than I have from reading all my history books. I can never thank you enough for the education you are freely giving me. It is priceless. And eye opening.

Many times I will not comment, but that does not mean I am not reading and learning.

You sir, are an educator. Thank you.

PhyllisWantage, NJ

Good morning Mr. Townsend,

Just to let you know I have finally finished that massive tome on General Lee. I never knew 1/10th of what a great man he was. No wonder the South is so proud of him! So sad that we have few men of his caliber today. We need them desperately. I have learned more history through you and your blog than I thought I could ever learn. I am very grateful to you. Thank you so much for taking time to answer my e-mail. And thank you for your blog and for opening my eyes.

PhyllisWantage, NJ

".......So good to hear from you! And also so pleased you are converting more of us Yankees! You have no idea how many people you have taught. And how many are so grateful to you for showing us the truth."

Your faithful friend,

Phylis

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I have also learned from Brock Townsend and two nurses lately, that appreciation expressed by someone for whom you have great respect overwhelms the lack of appreciation by some from whom you expect it. I believe that we cannot really know which small bit of help makes the life-saving difference. ﻿I may have learned more real American history on Brock's blog than in 20 years of government schooling.

I have learned more history from you than all the years I was supposed to be in school (and not out hunting or fishing).

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I really must say, I like thousands of others have said, your blog is the best out there and with all of your history and experience, you should run for *president. I look forward to reading your blog every day and every day I learn from you. Thank you for the time you put into this effort .

Sincerely,

Scott Fitts

*It would have to be an improvement. :) BT

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Hi Brock,

Ever since I picked up on your blog I "Knew" you were a "Gentleman of the South!" You lack the "Crassness" that is so prevalent in today's Sociopolitical arena but speak with the Firmness in Truth and Conviction of Right like the words of our Late Great President Jefferson Davis! That is Honorable.

I have been thinking about this for a while now. At first it was a very subtle notice, then it became larger as I saw more. Then it bloomed to me to be what it is. In your writings, in your Blog, Brock, "You" have written, posted and done more to eradicate the "Revisionist History" forced on us by the "Northern Aggressors,"BAR NONE!!!" The "Stars and Bars" fly High and Proud today even more thanks to your efforts!

Reading your post on 03 JUNE about the birthday of President Jefferson Davis and the "quotes" of his was the galvanizing statement! The first words of "His" you posted say so much, are timeless and can never be "Destroyed!" by any man! .......and those words were........

"Truth crushed to the earth is still truth still and like a seed will rise again."--Jefferson Davis (1808-1889)

In so many ways you and your efforts to keep and carry on the "Truth of the South" are the water and light of the Sun that nourish "That Seed" that Jefferson Davis speaks of! That "Seed" of "Southern Truth!" That cannot be vanquished because of efforts like Men as yourself!

Thanks for your selfless effort,

The "Stars and Bars" FLY!

Got gunz....OUTLAW?

III%,

skybill-out

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Dear Mr. Townsend,

I wanted to write to thank you for the pleasure and education I have received from reading your blog "Free North Carolina". I can honestly say that FNC is one of the first sites I visit daily.

I am a northerner by birth yet I consider the vilification of all things "South" a true and tragic disgrace. Your work has enabled me to become more familiar with a culture that I admire, yet have never really been familiar with.

Keep up the outstanding work!

A friend north of the Mason-Dixon Line,

Bob

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My good sir,

I have been reading your blog for years, filling-in the woeful gaps in my knowledge thanks to your efforts, and have been truly impressed with not merely the depth and breadth of the topics you broach, but the frank and honest way you deal with them.

I salute you.

You cannot imagine my immense delight at just reading the "Witting, intentionally, and willfully..." posted on your site, that you linked to Theo Spark's blog.

I'm the guy that wrote it and sent it to Theo a few days ago.

On both our behalves, thank you for posting it on your fine blog.

With warmest personal regards,

Rico

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